{"id":1446,"date":"2016-12-15T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2016-12-28T12:43:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T17:43:49","slug":"dusted-on-slight-at-that-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2016\/12\/dusted-on-slight-at-that-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusted on Slight At That Contact<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Meyer unpacks listening to\u00a0Slight at the Contact <\/i>for Dusted:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The lures to look elsewhere give the music\u2019s sensual qualities an extra dimension, like lumps of paint built up and out from a canvas. But the activity situated at the periphery raises doubts about where the real action lies. Maybe the surface is a curtain, something to be parted?”<\/p>\n

via:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/dustedmagazine.tumblr.com\/post\/154516312158\/billy-gomberg-slight-at-the-contact-students-of<\/a><\/p>\n

Complete review below:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMedial,\u201d the first track of Slight at the Contact,<\/i> simultaneously evokes the music from two past decades. Its unhurried electronic abrasions recall Oval c. diskont 94;<\/i> its shifting array of clicks, pops and squelches bring to mind Oren Ambarchi\u2019s early records for Touch. But when a record opens with a word that indicates the middle of something, shifts of perspective are in store. For while it is possible to take the record as ambient music with an undercurrent of unease, you\u2019ll get more out of it if you push past its surfaces.<\/p>\n

It gives you plenty of opportunities to do so. High frequencies reminiscent of birdsong and distant rattles that might come from a microphone drawn across a surface wink at you from the periphery of the distressed bass surface of \u201cOpenness,\u201d and trundling machine sounds and distant, echoing conversations break away from the layers of buffed grind that comprise \u201cLifelike.\u201d These invitations are subtle and quiet, but they occur often enough that they must be part of the plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But just what does Gomberg have in mind? The lures to look elsewhere give the music\u2019s sensual qualities an extra dimension, like lumps of paint built up and out from a canvas. But the activity situated at the periphery raises doubts about where the real action lies. Maybe the surface is a curtain, something to be parted?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Flip the record over and the implied birdsong becomes real. The chirps early in \u201cCaprice\u201d draw your ears away from the music\u2019s simmering exterior, and when they reappear later on they seem to point to an eruption of arhythmic pixilation. Is this record a dialogue between natural and unnatural, or near and far? One thing is sure; it allots more payoffs to the act of picking it apart than to the experience of drifting upon its surfaces.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Meyer unpacks listening to\u00a0Slight at the Contact for Dusted: “The lures to look elsewhere give the music\u2019s sensual qualities an extra dimension, like lumps of paint built up and out from a canvas. But the activity situated at the periphery raises doubts about where the real action lies. 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